Leave that talks to your sprint capacity.
Policies, balances, carry-forward and approvals — with approved leave reducing available hours in planning, automatically.
What is a leave management system?
A leave management system records leave policies, tracks balances and routes requests for approval. Goalz adds capacity awareness: because leave and project delivery sit in the same platform, approved leave reduces a developer's available hours in sprint planning immediately, so managers stop allocating work to people who are already away.
Policy, request, approval, capacity.
An approval that reaches the sprint plan.
In most stacks, leave and delivery never speak. Here, approving a request immediately reduces that person’s available hours for the affected sprint, and the plan flags anyone now over-allocated.
Policy once, applied everywhere.
Define each leave type with its accrual, carry-forward cap and expiry, per entity where regions differ. Balances then compute themselves and stay visible to everyone who needs them.
Approvals that do not stall on one person.
Requests route through the reporting line with delegation when an approver is themselves away, and escalate if nobody acts within the window you set.
Against a standalone leave tracker
A leave tracker tells you who is away. It cannot tell your delivery manager what that does to Friday's sprint.
| Capability | Goalz | Leave tracker | Email + spreadsheet |
|---|---|---|---|
| Policies, balances and carry-forward | Built in | Built in | Manual |
| Multi-level approval with delegation | Native | Varies | Email chains |
| Reduces sprint capacity automatically | Yes | No | No |
| Over-allocation flagged in the plan | Yes | No | Discovered late |
| Same employee record as HR and delivery | One record | Separate | Copy-pasted |
| Region-specific holiday calendars | Per entity | Sometimes | Manual |
| Year-end balance liability report | Built in | Export required | Hand-built |
An approval that changes the plan.
Approving leave in Goalz is not just a record. It moves capacity, which is why it belongs beside delivery.
Questions about leave and capacity
Bring your leave policy to the call.
Accruals, carry-forward caps, approval levels — we will configure it live and show a request flowing through it.